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“Use all the talents you have now – don’t wait until you have ‘gotten better’. The forest would be very quiet if only the best birds sang.” …
Read details“All art, literature and music must be brought forth with your heart’s blood.” Edward Munch Teaching is an interesting study of people. Everyone is so different, and how everyone approaches their work is so unique. The attitude you bring…
Read details“Painting isn’t an aesthetic operation; it’s a form of magic designed as a mediator between this strange, hostile world and us, a way of sizing the power by giving form to our terrors as well as our desires” Pablo Picasso “Life happens” on the way…
Read details“When it Rains it Pours.” Morton Salt Company It started when my husband became critically ill…
Read details“The artist does not draw what he sees, but what he must make others see.” Edgar Degas I want to start by saying no good artist ever stops being a student on some level. However, there does come a time when the “art student” should move from the process of learning and practicing techniques to…
Read details“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things but their inward significance” Aristotle A reader wrote and asked: “How important is composition?” The above quote has sat on the corner of my desk all summer, and I have thought about it often as I have written. Now I want to…
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